A hint for those installing win2k or winxp. I had difficulty installing Winxp due to it freezing right after adjusting the screen size in the first boot from the install. Following up on a hint I read somewhere, but don’t remember where, I made a virtual machine using the windows version (in bootcamp Vista). After installing it and service pack 2 then XP booted up fine! (I installed all updates except IE7). I used QemuManager for a nice windows frontend, and had to use a raw disk image and no kernel acceleration (virtualization?) on the windows side to get it to install.

When loading windows 2000 I was able to install it fine, but not able to install SP4 (without first installing SP3) but even after that my programs had trouble installing. I heard that installing them on the windows side would allow them to run in Q on the mac. As long as I can get this going for two apps, I can probably avoid paid solutions.

Note, I had tried this with both the stable and the bleeding edge version with similar errors and similar results.
Also, I am having some trouble with windows validation in Q, but it may be because of the built in firewall. (I do have a valid install of windows)

TanguyAugust 25, 2007

This 0,9 build seems a lot faster on my non intel mac.
I could not find any documentations to take advantage for the Network settings part of Qemu.

Did I miss anything ?

Tanguy

AndreasAugust 25, 2007

Unfortunately you’ve not reacted to the bug report I sent you a while ago, and there are some more 0.9.0 bugs waiting to be filed if submitting tickets actually works by now… Hope you’ll be updating Q to fix those issues.

I have installed for the first time on my Powerbook and downloaded Ubuntu server from the hugely impressive library of images - what a cool feature!!! You guys have put a lot of effort into this!

This app is so impressive, i am completely blown away. I tried installing debian on VirtualPC 6 today and it just point blank refuses to allow a network connection between the host and the client. hmm, a bit pointless.

So, i’m playing with Q and so far it rocks. It’s a bit slow on boot-up from the image, but that’s no biggy as i’ll save the image session in future.

Oh, is there any way to get Q to use more of the available screen resolution? I can of course make full screen, but that just stretches the image. If not, it’s all good as i can connect over ssh (when i’ve got networking working - hopefully soon).

Screenresolution is limited by the selected emulated graphic card (default is Cirrus Logic, which has only 4mb videoram, which gives you only 1024×786x24. There are some hacks using standart vga and vesa display mode to workaround that problem, but it does not work reliably and it is very slow.

this feature will be included when the next QEMU version is released, as it is already in the QEMU CVS.
We do not support QEMU CVS any longer, since there are a lot of fluctuation, until another “stable” is released.
If there is a lot of interest, we might try to backport it to qemu 0.9.0.

I just asked because I wrote the appropriate code for a friend who runs OSX, but I have been lazy to compile Q myself for him.

(btw, the site is buggy here (FF1.5), the Submit button is hardly visible)

Vincent ChowSeptember 28, 2007

I have been trying to take a working VPC7 Windows XP Home PC from a PPC to an Intel iMac, using Q build d89. The XP has SP2 and all the updates. It was not turned off when VP7 was shut.

I moved the VPC to the Intel iMac, copied the resource file over and got a successful import into Q. But when I try to run the Guest PC, it first said “Invalid Boot.ini, booting from /Windows”; and then stopped with “Missing or Corrupt hal.dll”.

I tried to import the VPC into Q on the PPC iMac where the VPC was resident, and the same thing happened.

I could not build XP anew using Q because I got the Windows packaged with the VPC7.